I saw David Rose’s Lovecraft’s Iraq and I thought I’d give it a whirl. I’m about halfway through it now, and it’s not half bad. The author is a war veteran from the time period that the book’s set in, and he’s obviously intimately familiar with what military life in Iraq was at that point. This gives the book a certain built-in authenticity when it suggests how the military would react to the Mythos.
Warning: it’s kind of bleak. Even by modern “Thomas Ligotti is my dark guru” cosmic horror standards.
#commissionearned
I’m kind of intimidated by “bleak by Ligotti standards”.
How’s it compare to “Black Sands: Catalogue of the Ten Thousand Churches”?
I dunno, haven’t read it. It any good?
Very.
Haven’t touched the sequel yet, though. It’s in my TBR pile.
Aight, I’ll give it a whirl.